{"product_id":"the-invisible-world-is-in-bruce-whiteman-9781770416574","title":"The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound's \u003ci\u003eCantos\u003c\/i\u003e and bp Nichol's \u003ci\u003eThe Martyrology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible World Is in Decline: Book IX\u003c\/i\u003e is full of startling poetic music and imagery while addressing concerns to which every reader will respond: the life of the heart as well as life during COVID-19, love as well as death, philosophy as well as emotion. The poems are deeply responsive to what an epigraph from Virgil calls \"vows and prayers,\" i.e., those things that we desire and promise. Like previous books of Whiteman's long poem, \u003ci\u003eBook IX\u003c\/i\u003e is largely in the form of the prose poem. But the book also contains a moving series of translations in traditional form of texts taken from songs by composers like Schubert and Beethoven, songs that are by turns tragic, meditative, lyrical, and touching. The concluding section focuses on an obsession that poets have had for 2,500 years: inspiration, in the form of the nine Muses. At the heart of this book is what Whiteman calls \"the bright articulate world,\" something visionary but accessible to every thoughtful reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Whiteman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1770416579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770416574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Bruce Whiteman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048712433919,"sku":"9781770416574","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_264063eb-c3e7-4b8a-a73f-8ee4587e020a.jpg?v=1684997387","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invisible-world-is-in-bruce-whiteman-9781770416574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}